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Androsterone

53-41-8C19H30O2290.447 g/mol

An androstanoid that is 5α-androstane having a hydroxy substituent at the 3α-position and an oxo group at the 17-position. It is a metabolite of dehydroepiandrosterone . — ChEBI

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Identity & molecular properties

Source-linked values
CAS number53-41-8ChEBI ↗
Molecular formulaC19H30O2ChEBI ↗
Molar mass290.447 g/molChEBI ↗
Monoisotopic mass290.22458 DaChEBI ↗
Formal charge0ChEBI ↗
ChEBI identifierCHEBI:16032ChEBI ↗

Cross-source molecular data

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Molar mass290.4 g/molPubChem ↗
Exact mass290.224580195 DaPubChem ↗
Computed XLogP3.7PubChem ↗
Topological polar surface area (Ų)37.3PubChem ↗
H-bond donors1PubChem ↗
H-bond acceptors2PubChem ↗
Rotatable bonds0PubChem ↗

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Names & structural identifiers

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androsterone
3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-17-one
QGXBDMJGAMFCBF-HLUDHZFRSA-N
[H][C@@]12CC[C@]3([H])[C@]([H])(CC[C@]4(C)C(=O)CC[C@@]34[H])[C@@]1(C)CC[C@@H](O)C2
InChI=1S/C19H30O2/c1-18-9-7-13(20)11-12(18)3-4-14-15-5-6-17(21)19(15,2)10-8-16(14)18/h12-16,20H,3-11H2,1-2H3/t12-,13+,14-,15-,16-,18-,19-/m0/s1

Names & synonyms

3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-17-one

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Classification & relationships

ChEBI ontology

Roles recorded in ChEBI

pheromoneanticonvulsantandrogenmouse metabolitehuman metabolitehuman urinary metabolitehuman blood serum metabolite

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Mass ↔ amount of substance

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Equivalent amount
0.00344297 mol

Uses 290.447 g/mol from ChEBI. Assumes the substance described by this record; no purity or concentration correction is applied.

Elemental composition

Theoretical mass fractions
C
Carbon · 19 atoms
78.57%
O
Oxygen · 2 atoms
11.02%
H
Hydrogen · 30 atoms
10.41%

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Sources & record history

Checked 27 Sep 2026
EMBL-EBI ChEBI · CHEBI:16032

Release 255, 9 September 2026. ChEBI three-star (manually annotated) source entry. View original record ↗ · CC BY 4.0

NCBI PubChem · CID 5879 · retrieved 2026-09-27

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